Morata de Jalón

Can you build a house on rustic land?

Aragón requires at least 1 ha for a new house on rustic land.

DL 1/2014, art. 34.2. A town plan can be stricter.

Plan in force: Plan General (a full town plan), from 1990. The region's planning viewer ↗

The national urban information system (SIU) maps the land class for 100% of the municipality.

Only the town hall can confirm it, in writing: ask for a certificado urbanístico.

Is there water?

No well or borehole is recorded in Morata de Jalón. That is not proof there is no water: ask local drillers.

Ground: 57% practically impermeable; 15% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 13% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 9.8% low permeability, local groundwater only.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 1.2% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 1.2% in the 500-year one.
• 1.2% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 47% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 94%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 316 mm a year (1971–2000), about 284 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 29.4 °C, about 33.4 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 37 a year, about 19 by 2041–2070.

Around it

El Frasno · Chodes · Alpartir · Santa Cruz de Grío · Arándiga · La Almunia de Doña Godina